Android’s biggest store-within-a-store shakeup starts next week

Google will host third-party app stores in the US Play Store starting July 22, following its withdrawal from the Epic Games settlement.

Android’s biggest app store shake-up in years begins next week

Google Play opens to rival Android app stores in the US on July 22, but competing storefronts must meet Google’s requirements ...

Google Photos' latest UI experiment has one job: getting CapCut on your phone

Google seems to be testing a subtle UI change in Google Photos that promotes ByteDance's CapCut video editing app.
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Google Changes the Rules for Ranking Android Coding AI—and Gemini Is Still Lagging Behind

Google upgraded its Android Bench coding developer leaderboard by adopting the Harbor sandbox framework and adding eight new AI models to the testing ecosystem. Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 secured ...